Town by the Mountain of the Mountains for Atlanta struck me. I can find no etymology for that. Most agree that it was pulled out of the air as a feminized version of Atlantic (as was the style at the time) by a railroad executive.

I was born in the City of the South Wind People. My father came from the Red Peoples' City and my mother hailed from the People of Moderate Weather. In August I am moving to be with the People of the Valley. Mostly for the climate.

Walla Walla, Washington is NOT "little swift river." It means "many waters" as the Walla Walla Indians didn't pluralize nouns, they repeated it meaning "more than one."Unless that's another town near Walla Walla. Then it can be "little swift river."

ehhh....to be pedantic, "Arizona" is believed to be the anglicized "a'li shonak", which is an indian word meaning "little spring", and the same language is believed to be where "Tucson" comes from, "tchuk-shon", or "dark spring" / "black spring". the "shonak" and "shon" are supposedly variants of "spring" in an idnian language.

I live in the ranch of the little rocky cliffs, a neighborhood northeast of St. Heelholder. I love going to the beach and then having a nice fancy dinner in swampy lowlands. Some people say swampy lowlands is really named after sparkly gemstones, but the locals know differently.

Nova Scotia = New Scotland = New Burnt Land (to scotch, to scorch, to burn, to brown as in Butterscotch)

New Brunswick = Black Bear Country. Bruns comes from a cognate of brown or black (brun) or bears (bruins), or split the difference and call it Place of the Brown/Black Bears. Brantgoose means Burnt Goose because it comes from the same Indo-European root (b-r-n) Can also mean Bruno's village. Wyck is from the Latin Vicus, a district, region, ward, neighbourhood. Vicinity is from the same root. Bruno is derived from bear, IIRC.

Quebec = Place of the Narrows.The Indian villagers that occupied the site of Quebec city for a couple of thousand years before Jacques Cartier's first visit (1535) would have called their village this because Quebec is the place where the river narrows noticeably.

Ontario = Great Big SeaNamed after the lake, which is named after the Ontario tribe, which is named after the lake. It means "Great Lake or Beautiful Lake". Strictlyl, the english word sea can be used of non-salt water bodies and also of marshes, as can the French word "mer". Near Ottawa we have a Mer Bleue, which is a marsh.

Manitoba = Land of Manitou, the Great Spirit

Saskatchewan = Swift River

Alberta = All BrightFemale form of Albert, which means noble, bright and has the same etymological origin as the family name Albright

British Columbia = Land of the Dove of Britain

Canadian place names aren't nearly as fanciful or imaginative as American place names.

Of course, we didn't kill all the Indians before we could ask them for place names. Just kidding. Neither did you.

One of the funny things about some New Brunswick place names is that they are Native American place names, but the native that the railroad asked to name them was a Deleware India from about a thousand miles South of New Brunswick (Canada).

So if you ask an Indian what the place name means and he shakes his head, he may simply not have a clue. Nobody in New Brunswick speaks Delaware in all probability.

Bonzo_1116:I live in the ranch of the little rocky cliffs, a neighborhood northeast of St. Heelholder. I love going to the beach and then having a nice fancy dinner in swampy lowlands. Some people say swampy lowlands is really named after sparkly gemstones, but the locals know differently.

VogonPoet:Bonzo_1116: I live in the ranch of the little rocky cliffs, a neighborhood northeast of St. Heelholder. I love going to the beach and then having a nice fancy dinner in swampy lowlands. Some people say swampy lowlands is really named after sparkly gemstones, but the locals know differently.

Bonzo_1116:VogonPoet: Bonzo_1116: I live in the ranch of the little rocky cliffs, a neighborhood northeast of St. Heelholder. I love going to the beach and then having a nice fancy dinner in swampy lowlands. Some people say swampy lowlands is really named after sparkly gemstones, but the locals know differently.

VogonPoet:Bonzo_1116: VogonPoet: Bonzo_1116: I live in the ranch of the little rocky cliffs, a neighborhood northeast of St. Heelholder. I love going to the beach and then having a nice fancy dinner in swampy lowlands. Some people say swampy lowlands is really named after sparkly gemstones, but the locals know differently.

Greetings from Where The Sun Breaks Through The Mist, "neighbor".

Leucadia?

Temecula

LOL. So that's what it means! I always thought it was some kind of skin disease.